DFW Grocery Challengers -

gerturdeanna

Well I'm in and got off to a bad start I'm afraid to say!! HaHa!!! Had to wait 30 mins for OH's prescription last night at Tesco, so went shopping!! AAAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!! I always spend to much in there!!! Never mind back to netto next week!!

In_Search_Of_Me

Disasterous...just went to do my big shop & spent £89(have to restock freezer)..no way I can live off £31 until 20 Aug so will stop this month & rejoin again next month when hopefully have SOME food in at the start!! Good luck all! Hope you have a good month!! Will keep an eye!

CAFCGirl

Right haven't actually spent anything this week as the flat mate bought the bread!! woohoo.
But thats so far, still got two more days ago and I feel the need for something fresh and vegetable like!

At least being off with stress lessens the appetite!

My PM's are on red alert Lynz!

kickingkay

ok just been shopping and although it came to £69.98, 21 was cards and clothes from other allowances,
so this week ive spent, £48.98!!!!

food budget for 21/0706-21-08-06 £250
spent £48.98

Bunnie1982

I'd love to join in on this, but I wouldn't be starting until 27th July as that is when I get paid.

There are 2 of us so I am budgeting for £25 per week (£100 per month) this includes cleaning and toiletries. My weakness tends to be that I work very close to Asda so during dinner hour I tend to pop across and buy a bag of crisps, a bottle of coke and a pastry (usually raisin croissant) so I need to stop doing this.

Might be useful if we all post where we shop?

Then we can get ideas of where we can get things cheaper. We usually shop at Asda which was great until they put all the prices up

lynzpower

fishface-69 wrote:

Disasterous...just went to do my big shop & spent £89(have to restock freezer)..no way I can live off £31 until 20 Aug so will stop this month & rejoin again next month when hopefully have SOME food in at the start!! Good luck all! Hope you have a good month!! Will keep an eye!

HANG ON ONE MINUTE LADY!!! What you COULD do is up your budget by say a further £30. Then you can still join. Dont throw the baby out with the bathwater- get back on track!!

lynzpower

I have decided that in this period of very very poor cash flow, shortly Im going to get OH to have a look at menu planning as well, he is a bit tighter than me at times ( is that possible) and a fresh pair of eyes will be a good idea.

I think we are off to walthamstow market later to get the veggies so hopefully keep this a very low spend week using storecupboard & freezer for the plan

elantan

well i actually did manage a full day not spending money yesterday ..i was amazed i succeeded ..but i know i will spend today need bean sprouts and things for the chow mein ....oh well will try to keep it to a minimum

nearlyrich

I have only just seen this thread, I will leave it here as requested but please can you keep it to financial matters rather than recipes etc which is really well covered on the OS board.

Good luck to you all, I am just off shopping and I am checking the cupboards before I go this week!

CAFCGirl

woohoo Tesco have just sent me a £5 moneycard as compo for some poor spare ribs I wrote to them about!
So thats £5 to add onto my budget, doing well havent spent anything as yet!